I got tired of dragging boxes, so I built an AI diagram tool for developers

Hector Ta — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:00:20 +0000

DiaShot turns plain English into system architectures, flowcharts, and sequence diagrams in seconds.

Every developer knows this pain.

You understand the system clearly in your head.

There is an API gateway, a few services, a database, maybe Redis, maybe a queue, maybe an external payment provider. You can explain the whole thing in 30 seconds.

But then someone asks:

“Can you make a diagram for this?”

And suddenly you are dragging boxes around for 30 minutes.

Aligning arrows.

Fixing spacing.

Renaming nodes.

Moving things 3 pixels to the left.

Exporting a blurry PNG.

Trying to make it look decent in a document or slide deck.

I got tired of that workflow, so I built DiaShot.

👉 https://diashot.com/

DiaShot turns text into technical diagrams: system architectures, flowcharts, and sequence diagrams.

No drag-and-drop misery. Just describe what you want.

For example:

Create a system architecture diagram for a SaaS app with React frontend, API gateway, auth service, billing service, PostgreSQL, Redis cache, Stripe webhook, and background worker.

DiaShot generates the diagram in seconds.
I'm still fixing the Magic feature (AI diagram generation). But you can still get diagram images, pdf, ppt format export by putting the mermaid script as input.

I love Mermaid.js, but I wanted something faster.
No syntax struggle.
No drag-and-drop misery.
Just describe the system and get a clean diagram.
I built it for developers, technical founders, PMs, architects, and anyone who explains systems often.
Try it here:
👉 https://diashot.com/
Would love your feedback:
What diagram do you hate creating manually?

GhostLayer - AI Text Humanization - My first app launching

Hector Ta — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:01:12 +0000

I've officially purchased a domain to launch my app: http://ghostlayer.io.vn/

This app helps humanize text so it won't be flagged as AI-generated. In other words, it transforms AI-generated content into natural, human-like writing while preserving meaning and intent. Beyond those who frequently use AI to write content, there are people who write their own content but still get incorrectly flagged by AI detection tools. This happens because they've learned writing styles from standardized tests like IELTS and TOEFL—the same sources these AI systems were trained on—leading to false positives. My app helps prevent these situations.

When you search for it on Google right now, this app hasn't been indexed yet and won't show up in results since it typically takes several weeks or even months to get indexed and appear in search results, so just bookmark it first. Hopefully, one day many people will use this app. Even if it won't go viral, it'll serve as valuable experience for my other apps. I'll post a demo video later showing how it works.

I look forward to hearing feedbacks from you guys about which other features you expect to be added for this app.

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I got tired of dragging boxes, so I built an AI diagram tool for developers

GhostLayer - AI Text Humanization - My first app launching